Description:
With a Foreword by Robert Dott Jnr

Sedimentology is steadily developing as a basic discipline of earth sciences. The authors describe the chronology of the emergence of sedimentology by setting out the objective of sedimentology studies and its broad impact on such diverse fields of earth sciences as petrology, mineralogy and geomorphology as well as on applied fields such as geotechnology, ecology and soil sciences.

The approach is distinctive since the book deals with the significant contributions made by individuals to the development of the subject from Steno in the seventeenth century to the present day. It is lavishly illustrated with examples of research as well as portraits of key scientists.

This is a library reference work for Earth Sciences libraries world wide. The book is a revised and expanded version of a book first published in Japanese in 2002.

Professor Hakuyu Okada was formerly at Kyushu University, Fukuoka. Professor Alec Kenyon-Smith has retired from Royal Holloway College, University of London. Professor Robert Dott Jnr of the University of Wisconsin has written the foreword.